Hard truth of New Year's Eve
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There is nothing like putting on an old suit to remind you how much weight you’ve put on during the pandemic. Read more...
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When to choose Cloud SQL and when to choose Spanner in Google Cloud
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One of the most challenging parts of using the cloud is to choose the right product. Often, the cloud vendors, in this case, Google Cloud, will provide two or more services that seem to provide exactly the same functionalities. Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner are in that category. Both services allow to store and interrogate data with SQL, both are fully managed, and both provide ACID transactions – no drugs involved. Read more...
What to do when someone is obviously feeling bad?
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This can happen in face-to-face meetings as well as in conf-calls Instead of asking a question like “how are you?” — that can be answered by fine. Use Something is wrong, I want to help This is coming from the Simon Sinek TED interview in 2021. Getting more information If you are interested about how this topic connects with being a better leader, or being a better communicator go to my Second Brain Read more...
learning in public - Google Cloud -Professional Cloud Architect
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I will be learning in public, my notes - few for now but more to come - are available here Now with the following documentation Cloud resource hierarchy Steaming API Dataflow Pub/Sub Google Cloud Compute Engine - VMs Google Kubernetes Engine Google Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver) Cloud Storage Deployment manager Cloud Shell Transfer Appliance Spinnaker Cloud Logging Cloud Monitoring Anthos [Cloud Run](https://zt.frankcontrepois.com/Left-side/Certifications/Google+-+Professional+Cloud+Architect/Anthos#Cloud Run) App Engine Cloud Functions Databases Cloud SQL - relational Cloud Spanner 30TB+ SQL Big Table - wide column Cloud Firestore - document BigQuery - analytics Read more...
How to download all the AWS pricing in bash
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Hello, this bash one-liner needs bash, a correctly configured AWS CLI, wget, jq and that’s it. The script will: Download the master file Parse the json file with jq extracting, for each product, the url of the current version Create a folder hierarchy with the name of the product (done by the settings of wget) Save the pricing, in that directory For example the pricing of AmazonQLDB will be in the folder AmazonQLDB/current/ Read more...
Learning in public - Technics to better communicate and write
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Hello, in my research to become a better writer and a better communicator I am greatly helped by the people around me, ready to share tips and tricks. Here are four methods to help prepare, write, and communicate that I’ve been using successfully - they are foolproof! To think about a structure - Why? What? How? I use the Why? What? How? approach to make sure I understand why the content is needed, what I want to say and how to say it. Read more...
learning in public - Google Cloud -Professional Cloud Architect
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Once again I need to renew a certification, this time it is the Google Professional Cloud Architect. As usual, I will be learning in public, my notes - few for now but more to come - are available here Read more...
An article about time and FinOps get all the AWS prices from one line in bash
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This one-liner downloads the AWS pricing master file, parse it and download all the files listed in it. wget -q -O - https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/index.json | jq -r '.offers[].currentVersionUrl' | wget -x \-\-base="https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com" \-\-no-host-directories \-\-cut-dirs=3 -i - A new page about Interesting numbers related to time Read more...
What I learned from the book - Why Simple Wins: Escape the Complexity Trap and Get to Work That Matters
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Hello everyone, The permanent notes of the book: Why Simple Wins - Escape the Complexity Trap and Get to Work That Matters What it means is that after reading the book, and creating hundreds of notes, I hand-picked the ones that really add value, connected them with other notes to generate new ideas, effectively creating an extention to the current knowledge tree. The end result looks like this: Read more...
FinOps - Amortization - Why 730h per month - Category Attribute Service
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Hello Some additions to the CUR zettelkasten: Trying to explain amortisation - I still cannot explain it simply :disappointed: Why 730 hours per month is often used in monthly calculations? A new page for the brilliant Category_Attribute_Service file Some calculations in the RI article and finally the beginning of a new article called Questions you can ask a CUR file Read more...